Lilian Pizzichini has worked for the Literary Review and the Times Literary Supplement. Her first book, Dead Men's Wages, won the 2002 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-fiction. Until recently she was writer-in-residence at a prison. She lives in London.

'A wonderful book: exciting and dramatic as narrative, perceptive and original as literary criticism' Francis Wyndham 'Lilian Pizzichini's poised, moving biography shows a near-perfect understanding of her subject, and how her tragic life informed her fiction' Daily Telegraph Summer Reads 'Vividly delivers us into the novelist's fractured world ... aims, compellingly, not just to set out the facts but to make the reader feel as Rhys felt' Sunday Times 'A superb book' Guardian

Lilian Pizzichini has worked for the Literary Review and the Times Literary Supplement. Her first book, Dead Men's Wages, won the 2002 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-fiction. Until recently she was writer-in-residence at a prison. She lives in London.

'A wonderful book: exciting and dramatic as narrative, perceptive and original as literary criticism' Francis Wyndham 'Lilian Pizzichini's poised, moving biography shows a near-perfect understanding of her subject, and how her tragic life informed her fiction' Daily Telegraph Summer Reads 'Vividly delivers us into the novelist's fractured world ... aims, compellingly, not just to set out the facts but to make the reader feel as Rhys felt' Sunday Times 'A superb book' Guardian

Lilian Pizzichini has worked for the Literary Review and the Times Literary Supplement. Her first book, Dead Men's Wages, won the 2002 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-fiction. Until recently she was writer-in-residence at a prison. She lives in London.

'A wonderful book: exciting and dramatic as narrative, perceptive and original as literary criticism' Francis Wyndham 'Lilian Pizzichini's poised, moving biography shows a near-perfect understanding of her subject, and how her tragic life informed her fiction' Daily Telegraph Summer Reads 'Vividly delivers us into the novelist's fractured world ... aims, compellingly, not just to set out the facts but to make the reader feel as Rhys felt' Sunday Times 'A superb book' Guardian